Sailing cruise with friends - on their new boat!

Our friends Chris & June got a new sailboat!  It's not new, but it is new to them.  They usually have racing sailboats, but this one is more of a cruiser (not that it won't will any races).   They have a lot of work that they want to do to it:  new sails, refurbish the wood...   We had a lovely evening sail, with drinks & appetizers

It's an easy boat to sail (with a self tacker jib, which they want to remove), so we just sat and relaxed :)

Beautiful night with friends - they always end too early :)

 

Chris's mom & husband in town!

Chris' Mom and her husband drove up to RI in their hot rod - a 1934 Dodge coupe.   They arrived safely, but the transmission started having some issues while they were in town.  Nothing a little elbow grease couldn't fix - it just took a few days to get it to the Transmission guy, get parts, etc.  Glad we had the garage space for them!

They had a lot of plans to visit family and friends while they were in town, but we were able to spend some time with them too.  Dinner at SS Dion

a morning drive to the coffee shop

Bolts snuggling with Grandma on this rainy day (he is not a fan of riding in the rain)

a visit to Dallas' shop where he was busy working

Bolts loves exploring the shop

car talk...

Grandson talk...

Liz and I got a nice walk in on the bike path.  We came across the animal control officer who was looking for a sick raccoon. Bolts would have loved to help her look, ha ha

The naughty transmissioin

Bolts loves snuggling with Grandma

Liz & Tony got us some beautiful flowers, for letting them stay :)

Bolts loves snuggling with Tony too!

In between their family & friend visits, they worked on the Dodge

Bean was happy to snuggle too.  She's become quite the friendly little thing

Our last morning - breakfast in Little Compton!  (Tony's family used to lease the land behind this restaurant for their milking cows).  Great visit!

 

Cars & Coffee!

We got the red pickup out and drove to a cars & coffee event in Newport!  Summer is flying by, and we have not done many hot rod events!

Good turnout with crowd & types of cars

We saw our friends Scott & Gwen

This venue at Salve Regina University is so beautiful - beautiful field and right on the water too

And then Breakfast!  Yum!